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Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
Died. Suzanne Valadon, 70, noted artist and mother of famed Painter Maurice Utrillo; in Paris. Once a model for Renoir, Lautrec, Degas, she studied under them, later taught her son to paint...
Artist Utrillo, born 53 years ago, is the illegitimate son of a onetime circus acrobat, Marie Suzanne Valadon, who at the age of 15 became a favorite nude model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, later became a painter herself and is alive today, still painting, with a reputation nearly as great as that of her son. The father was an alcoholic, ill-tempered, untalented painter named Boissy. In 1888, when little Maurice was five, pretty Suzanne Valadon married a Paris importer named Paul Mousis, but M. Mousis refused to legitimize Maurice Valadon Boissy or give...
...doctor at this institute who got him to try painting to take his mind off drink. Suzanne Valadon taught him all she knew, and Maurice Utrillo was soon wandering the streets of Montmartre, painting the white-walled houses, grey roofs and long, empty streets of Paris...